I’ve been looking forward to tonight’s opening Sabres game for months and their world class superstar teenager Jsck Eichel badly for signed his ankle yesterday. Could miss a month or two. Sigh. It sucks about Crosby’s concussion, too. It’s a rough game.
3.
Just One More Canuck
Go Habs Go
4.
Jerry
Speaking as a Hurricanes fan, I love this feeling: Opening day of a sporting season and my team is still technically in the hunt for the championship trophy.
Sharks won their home opener against the Kings last night. Maybe I’ll go to a game this year.
7.
Old Broad in California
…and my Kings lost to the Sharks… and lost Jonathan Quick- ugh
8.
Splitting Image
The Toronto Sun is hyping the fact that the Maple Leafs’ 1st-round draft pick scored four goals in his first game, making him a combination of Howe, Gretzky, Lemieux, and Jacques Plante. Stanley Cups are sure to come quick and often. The Leafs’ standard operating procedure in these situations is to increase ticket prices, vote everybody in the head office a large bonus, and surround their star with a core of overpriced, over-the-hill veterans who can keep the team competitive until the star is too old to be the nucleus of an actual winning team.
Let me say for the record that I think the Maple Leafs are a “team of destiny”, ordained by fate to break the Chicago Cubs’ record of consecutive years without winning a championship. The Cubs will have to actually win before we know how long it will be before the Leafs win the Cup.
@Splitting Image: Leafs fans are some of the most entertainingly neurotic in all of sports.
11.
Just One More Canuck
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I would change “entertainingly neurotic” to “entertainingly delusional”
12.
laura
@Origuy: or just go to Henry’s High Life and convert the cost of a ticket into a prime rib and drinkies.
Also, some hockey playing occasionally broke out last night, interrupting the fight.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
You are assuming anyone here has the foggiest idea what you are talking about. It is just you and me.
BTW – we found you in, stored for safe keeping, sorry about not getting you up there for the games.
16.
Schlemazel
@Splitting Image:
Either that or, more likely, the thugs will work him over every game until he is dinged up enough that he can hardly lift his arms or make sharp turns anymore and he will become average.
17.
kjazz
@Splitting Image: Well, as a long-time depressed Leafs fan, he’s brought some hope back to the city. 4 goals in his first game is already one for the record books. Not a bad way to start a career!
18.
Lorinda Pike
@Old Dan and Little Anne: Sorry about that. (Habs fan here.) I seriously hope Kane is okay. That was very scary. Torrey Mitchell will probably be on concussion protocol.
19.
Lorinda Pike
@Just One More Canuck: Uh oh… there are at least two of us here. (Do you hate Therrible also, because I sure do.)
20.
Old Dan and Little Anne
@Lorinda Pike: I broke my collar bone a few summers ago and I was in less pain than what Kane was experiencing. Ugh. That was a brutal collision into he boards.
21.
smintheus
God I love to watch Marchand play!
22.
Origuy
@laura: I sometimes go to O’Flagherty’s in San Pedro Square on Tuesday nights to listen to the Irish seisiún. They don’t play if there’s a home game, though. Still a good place to hang out.
23.
Jerry
How the fuck does Cam Ward still have a job in the NHL? Fuckin criminy.
24.
different-church-lady
@smintheus: Give a man $49 million and he gives you 5 points back in his first game.
That’s how it’s supposed to work, but it seldom does.
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Just One More Canuck
@Lorinda Pike: I don’t hate him, but I was pretty surprised when he was brought back this year. I think if things go a bit sideways both he and Bergevin are gone. But nice win tonight – hopefully the drama from last year wont be repeated
26.
AnotherBruce
I’m with you Cole, kinda glad that the Penguins prevailed. But It’s going to be another Blackhawk’s year. Have I ever mentioned that I love hockey? Hockey is a constant sports fever that melts the ice. It’s fast and furious, Also, by the way, I love hockey.
27.
AnotherBruce
@efgoldman: I really hate the Broncos, but why oh why did they bench Trevor Simian?
28.
ShadeTail
HOCKEY IS BACK! HOCKEY IS BACK! HOCKEY IS BACK!
Hockey can go fuck itself. Several of my favorite music radio stations keep dropping the music to broadcast those goddamn games.
Hockey.
Can.
Go.
**FUCK**!!
Itself.
29.
Amir Khalid
They play hockey in America? Like, on AstroTurf, with wooden sticks ans a cricket ball?
? Martin
Hockey is still a thing? Huh. Who’d have known…
Old Dan and Little Anne
I’ve been looking forward to tonight’s opening Sabres game for months and their world class superstar teenager Jsck Eichel badly for signed his ankle yesterday. Could miss a month or two. Sigh. It sucks about Crosby’s concussion, too. It’s a rough game.
Just One More Canuck
Go Habs Go
Jerry
Speaking as a Hurricanes fan, I love this feeling: Opening day of a sporting season and my team is still technically in the hunt for the championship trophy.
redshirt
LETS GO PEN!S
Origuy
Sharks won their home opener against the Kings last night. Maybe I’ll go to a game this year.
Old Broad in California
…and my Kings lost to the Sharks… and lost Jonathan Quick- ugh
Splitting Image
The Toronto Sun is hyping the fact that the Maple Leafs’ 1st-round draft pick scored four goals in his first game, making him a combination of Howe, Gretzky, Lemieux, and Jacques Plante. Stanley Cups are sure to come quick and often. The Leafs’ standard operating procedure in these situations is to increase ticket prices, vote everybody in the head office a large bonus, and surround their star with a core of overpriced, over-the-hill veterans who can keep the team competitive until the star is too old to be the nucleus of an actual winning team.
Let me say for the record that I think the Maple Leafs are a “team of destiny”, ordained by fate to break the Chicago Cubs’ record of consecutive years without winning a championship. The Cubs will have to actually win before we know how long it will be before the Leafs win the Cup.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The Gophers are 3-1. God, I hate playing Bemidji. Looking forward to this weekend’s series against the possibly resurgent Dawgs.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Splitting Image: Leafs fans are some of the most entertainingly neurotic in all of sports.
Just One More Canuck
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: I would change “entertainingly neurotic” to “entertainingly delusional”
laura
@Origuy: or just go to Henry’s High Life and convert the cost of a ticket into a prime rib and drinkies.
Also, some hockey playing occasionally broke out last night, interrupting the fight.
jacy
Hockey! Go Avs!
trollhattan
@redshirt:
CLEN!IS?
Schlemazel
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
You are assuming anyone here has the foggiest idea what you are talking about. It is just you and me.
BTW – we found you in, stored for safe keeping, sorry about not getting you up there for the games.
Schlemazel
@Splitting Image:
Either that or, more likely, the thugs will work him over every game until he is dinged up enough that he can hardly lift his arms or make sharp turns anymore and he will become average.
kjazz
@Splitting Image: Well, as a long-time depressed Leafs fan, he’s brought some hope back to the city. 4 goals in his first game is already one for the record books. Not a bad way to start a career!
Lorinda Pike
@Old Dan and Little Anne: Sorry about that. (Habs fan here.) I seriously hope Kane is okay. That was very scary. Torrey Mitchell will probably be on concussion protocol.
Lorinda Pike
@Just One More Canuck: Uh oh… there are at least two of us here. (Do you hate Therrible also, because I sure do.)
Old Dan and Little Anne
@Lorinda Pike: I broke my collar bone a few summers ago and I was in less pain than what Kane was experiencing. Ugh. That was a brutal collision into he boards.
smintheus
God I love to watch Marchand play!
Origuy
@laura: I sometimes go to O’Flagherty’s in San Pedro Square on Tuesday nights to listen to the Irish seisiún. They don’t play if there’s a home game, though. Still a good place to hang out.
Jerry
How the fuck does Cam Ward still have a job in the NHL? Fuckin criminy.
different-church-lady
@smintheus: Give a man $49 million and he gives you 5 points back in his first game.
That’s how it’s supposed to work, but it seldom does.
Just One More Canuck
@Lorinda Pike: I don’t hate him, but I was pretty surprised when he was brought back this year. I think if things go a bit sideways both he and Bergevin are gone. But nice win tonight – hopefully the drama from last year wont be repeated
AnotherBruce
I’m with you Cole, kinda glad that the Penguins prevailed. But It’s going to be another Blackhawk’s year. Have I ever mentioned that I love hockey? Hockey is a constant sports fever that melts the ice. It’s fast and furious, Also, by the way, I love hockey.
AnotherBruce
@efgoldman: I really hate the Broncos, but why oh why did they bench Trevor Simian?
ShadeTail
Hockey can go fuck itself. Several of my favorite music radio stations keep dropping the music to broadcast those goddamn games.
Hockey.
Can.
Go.
**FUCK**!!
Itself.
Amir Khalid
They play hockey in America? Like, on AstroTurf, with wooden sticks ans a cricket ball?
Lorinda Pike
@Just One More Canuck: From your keyboard to Geoff Molson’s ears.
ixnay
@redshirt: That’s the way I first saw it also: the dancing around of the image does that, I think.